English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
By Leopoldo Luis I wrote cultural notes for the e-zine cultural weekly Esquife. They were extremely simple texts, barely forty lines, for which I was paid, I swear — forty pesos in national currency (around 15 cents U.S.); that is agro-pesos, CUP (since the Cuban Convertible Currency continues to be very national too). Then someone … Continue reading “Angel Santiesteban: The Round of Silence / Angel Santiesteban”
Idolidia Darias: from #Cuba report that supreme court upholds unjust 5 year sentence against the writer Angel Santiesteban. 28 January 2013
The majority of human beings share with the animal kingdom a love of liberty and respect for our neighbors. But not everyone, evidently. Because if it were so, dictators wouldn’t exist, nor would other inferior spirits that – reincarnated into despicable henchmen and bullies – execute, literally, human dignity on a daily basis. But dignity … Continue reading “Dignity cannot be killed nor can it be caged / Angel Santiesteban #Cuba”
Cuba stopped being the subject of good news in the world press many decades ago. Day by day, the violations of human rights, the repression and violence of the State, the secretism around the health of the dictators — the retired Fidel Castro and the “active” Hugo Chávez — the political persecutions, arbitrary detentions, religious … Continue reading “My “inclined” writing of “suspicious size” published in France / Angel Santiesteban #Cuba”
By Wichy García Fuentes | Originally appeared in Revista Replicante A Cuban writer has just been sentenced to five years in jail for a crime he never committed. He has just been sent again to the galleys for that bad obsession that some have to wish that a hundred, fifty, ten, five or one person … Continue reading “Kafkaesque Chronology in the Island Utopia / Angel Santiesteban #Cuba”
Wilfredo Vallín Almeida The case of the honored and prize-winning writer Angel Santiesteban Prats has been appealed to the Supreme Court by his defense attorney, using the right to appeal to the highest court in the land. In a previous post I analyzed the facts that were present in the case and now I will … Continue reading “Santiesteban: The Fundamentals of Law and Reasonable Doubt / Angel Santiesteban #Cuba”
Felix Luis Veira: “I believe what Santiesteban says, not what a dictatorship says or might say, a dictatorship that maintains silence on this sentence before the residents in Cuba.” One of the most outstanding storytellers in the literature of the Island in recent times has been sentenced to five years in prison. By Felix Luis … Continue reading “The Crime of Angel Santiesteban / Angel Santiesteban #Cuba”
Intellectual Repression in Cuba How to Convert the Writer Ángel Santiesteban from Butterfly to Worm by Amir Valle Wanted: Angel Santiesteban – Taken from Rodrigo Kuang’s Blog In Number 3 of this magazine, in my personal column, I wrote about an issue I was very curious about then: how the political regime that prevails in … Continue reading “The Metamorphosis of a Butterfly into a Worm as Staged in the Court Theater of the Castros / Angel Santiesteban #Cuba”
My lawyer has already filed an appeal which is available for reading in my blog. This appeal details each and every one of the violations of law committed by the same Justice that has condemned me for “writing with a ’certain’ bias, and drawing letters of a very suspicious size.” The Justice that seeks put … Continue reading “Invented Charges and Other Judicial Crimes / Angel Santiesteban #Cuba”
The most serious offense a citizen in Cuba can commit is to want their country to be free and democratic, but even worse is speaking out against the criminal dictatorship that has governed us for 53 years. And in my case, the catalog of “crimes” that calligraphically crowned writing with “a certain” tilt and drawing … Continue reading “Let me be clear: If “something” happens to me there is no way it will be an “accident” / Angel Santiesteban #Cuba”
By Wilfredo Vallin Almeida The questions mount up in the criminal case of the celebrated writer Ángel Santiesteban leaving the legal officials in Cuba looking very bad in terms of transparency and legal techniques and leaving us with a certain taste of injustice. The case is a good demonstration of that and gives rise to … Continue reading “Santiesteban, the Facts and Reasonable Doubt / Angel Santiesteban, By Wilfredo Vallin Almeida”
Most intellectuals and readers agree the first book that managed to provide deep insights about the writer’s life was Virgilio Piñera en persona (Virgilio Piñera in person), an excellent compilation prepared by the critic and researcher Carlos Espinosa. It started to build the pedestal to the work of theintellectual Virgilio. In these pages his family, … Continue reading “The Sad Centenary of Virgilio Pinera Part III / Angel Santiesteban #Cuba”
By Daniel Morales The writer Angel Santiesteban-Prats has been sentenced to five years in prison by the gang of assassins that, for more than 50 years, dominates every living creature that lives in the beauty and always Faithful Island of Cuba. That sentence was so expected by Angel himself, like for all of us who, … Continue reading “Diary of a Desperado. Our Angel of the Cuban Narrative. / Angel Santiesteban #Cuba #FreeSantiesteban”
By Amir Valle Ángel Santiesteban is a writer. It’s a truth so absolute that it can make whoever reads this think, “Amir Valle still doesn’t know what he’s going to write.” And he would be right. Because I could have begun by saying directly what I mean: “Ángel Santiesteban is a writer, but they want … Continue reading “For Shame! / Angel Santiesteban #Cuba”
When we got to the police station Aguilera, led me to the dungeons. The guards held me by the arms, I was almost dragged. I had no energy, the pains ran all over my body, but mostly because of blows in the ribs I did not get enough air and it was like a knife … Continue reading “Facing State Counterintelligence Part 2 / Angel Santiesteban #Cuba”